Mapping Wonder: A RENEW Creative Writing Practice-as-Research studentship

学生身份将允许你探索你作为一名出版诗人的实践，以及对公共参与和创造性写作教学的明显兴趣，如何收集准确的生物多样性信息以及关于生物多样性丧失和更新的情感和文化信息。我们相信，诗歌是唯一能够倾听和阐明为什么局部和全球生物多样性可能对个人和社区重要，也可能对个人和社区无关紧要的能力。我们正在寻找一位诗人，他的出版物越来越多，能够写出高质量的作品，以回应Renew的跨学科研究。被任命的学生将有机会与世界级的研究人员和广泛的国内和国际合作伙伴合作，包括你将在那里实习的诗歌学会。这是一个非同寻常的机会，可以发现新的思维方式，即如何创作诗歌来回应生物多样性更新的科学，以及诗人兼教育家在当前生物多样性危机中的作用。学生将自我激励，并对在艺术、人文、STEM、商业、社会科学和其他学科的交叉点工作有浓厚的兴趣。其中一个监督小组将是一名生态学家。指定学生的发现，通过他们作为诗人的实践和他们的公共参与工作，将与RENEW的大数据地图相结合，以开发情感和文化图表，使我们能够在现有的生物多样性水平和RENEW活动的影响之间导航。至关重要的是，在我们承认我们在这一领域的损失的同时，我们要更新我们的好奇感，并找到与扭转生物多样性下降所产生的生态复杂性相称的意义模式。学生将利用他们的公共参与和诗歌教学技能来探索生物多样性的隐喻如何根据个人和集体对生物多样性的经验而改变。从他们的研究中获得的整体证据将塑造我们研究重点的演变，叙事将更新呈现给公众。学生将被要求仔细考虑如何将他们的发现传达给一系列感兴趣的社区和个人--我们希望在这个项目中，诗歌将在实现这些事情方面发挥重要作用。研究的全部范围将与监督小组进行谈判。博士实践研究成果将包括与RENEW主题直接相关的完整诗集。补充产出可包括与监督小组商定的表演、展览、教材等。学生还将就他们研究的一个方面写一篇批判性的论文。

The studentship will allow you to explore how your practice as a published poet, with a demonstrable interest in public engagement and creative-writing pedagogies, may gather precise biodiversity information and emotional and cultural information about biodiversity loss and renewal. We believe that poetry is uniquely capable of listening to, and articulating, why local and global biodiversity may or may not matter to individuals and communities.We are looking for a poet with a growing profile of publications capable of composing high-quality work in response to RENEW's transdisciplinary research. The appointed student will have the opportunity to collaborate with world-class researchers and a wide range of national and international partners, including The Poetry Society, where you will undertake a residency. This is an extraordinary opportunity to discover new ways of thinking about how to make poems in response to the science of biodiversity renewal, and about the role of the poet-educator during the current biodiversity crisis. The student will be self-motivated and have a strong interest in working at the intersection between arts, humanities, STEM, business, social sciences and other disciplines. One of the supervisory team will be an ecologist.The appointed student's findings, both through their practice as a poet and their public engagement work, will be integrated with RENEW's big-data mapping to develop emotional and cultural charts that will allow us to navigate between existing biodiversity levels and the impact of RENEW's activities. It is crucial that while we acknowledge our losses in this area, we renew our sense of wonder, and find patterns of meaning commensurate to the ecological complexity that grows from reversing biodiversity decline. The student will use their public engagement and poetry pedagogical skills to explore how metaphors for biodiversity may alter according to individual and collective experiences of biodiversity. The holistic evidence drawn from their research will shape the evolution of our research focus and the narratives RENEW presents to the public. The student will be expected to think carefully about the best ways to communicate their findings to a range of interested communities and individuals - this is a project in which we hope poetry will play an important role in making things happen. The full scope of the research will be negotiated with the supervisory team. The PhD practice-as-research output will include a full collection of poems directly related to the themes of RENEW. Supplementary outputs may include performances, exhibitions, education materials etc. agreed with the supervisory team. The student will also produce a critical thesis on an aspect of their research.